Like a Rolling Stone

Once upon a time you dressed so fine

Threw the bums a dime in your prime, didn't you?

People call, say "Beware, doll, you're bound to fall"

You thought they were all a-kiddin' you

You used to laugh about

Everybody that was hangin' out

Now you don't talk so loud

Now you don't seem so proud

About having to be scrounging your next meal

How does it feel?

How does it feel

To be without a home

Like a complete unknown

Like a rolling stone?

Aw, you've gone to the finest school all right, Miss Lonely

But ya know ya only used to get juiced in it

Nobody's ever taught ya how to live out on the street

And now you’re gonna have to get used to it

You say you never compromise

With the mystery tramp, but now you realize

He's not selling any alibis

As you stare into the vacuum of his eyes

And say, “Do you want to make a deal?"

How does it feel?

How does it feel

To be on your own

With no direction home

A complete unknown

Like a rolling stone?

Aw, you never turned around to see the frowns

On the jugglers and the clowns when they all did tricks for you

Never understood that it ain't no good

You shouldn't let other people get your kicks for you

You used to ride on a chrome horse with your diplomat

Who carried on his shoulder a Siamese cat

Ain't it hard when you discover that

He really wasn't where it's at

After he took from you everything he could steal?

How does it feel?

How does it feel?

To hang on your own

With no direction home

Like a complete unknown

Like a rolling stone?

Aw, princess on the steeple and all the pretty people

They're all drinkin', thinkin' that they got it made

Exchangin' all precious gifts

But you'd better take your diamond ring, ya better pawn it, babe

You used to be so amused

At Napoleon in rags, and the language that he used

Go to him now, he calls ya, ya can't refuse

When ya ain't got nothin', you got nothin' to lose

You're invisible now, ya got no secrets to conceal

How does it feel?

Aw, how does it feel

To be on your own

With no direction home

Like a complete unknown

Like a rolling stone?